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The White Album - what's not to like?

Revolution #9 - The Beatles

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My favourite album. I request the collaboration with The Oak Ridge Boys;

'Big Bad John'

Better than the original? Hell, yeah!

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My favourite Bonnie Raitt album. Produced by Don Was. Winner of 2 Grammy Awards.

'Longing in Their Hearts'

The title track, please. Alternatively, Bonnie's stunning cover of Richard Thompson's

'Dimming of the Day'

with Paul Brady providing harmony vocals.

#1
I think that it has been well enough documented on the Blog that this album is very over-rated.

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Gonnae play Mother?


DC (looking forward to the 30th anniversary tour concert in Manchester in a fortnight's time)

DC

Elbow - 'The Seldom Seen Kid'

'The Bones Of You' is my favourite

Or....

Mother Nature's Son from The White Album...........

#3

Me and DC think it's PDB, BTW!

>8-D

#4

+1 on The Wall. Mother's a fine choice - the Sinead O'Connor version from the Live in Berlin (at the Berlin Wall) recording?

#6

The perfect Beatles album is Revolver, sorry.

How long have you got.....

Mark Olson - Salvation Blues (Salvation Blues or Sandy Denny)

Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Promised Land)

Gene Clark - No Other (From A Silver Phial)

Del Amitri -Change Everything (Be My Downfall or Sometimes I Just Have To Say Your Name)

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - (Teenage Wildlife)

The Who - Who's Next (Behind Blue Eyes)

Van Morrison - No Guru No Method No Teacher (In The Garden)

Chris Rea - Water Sign (Deep Water)

#8 re #6 tend to agree

Friends we keep / Journeybox (Story)
I still do / i am Kloot (Sky at Night)
Still the Same / Bob Seger (Stranger in Town)
Inner City Blues / Marvin Gaye (Whats goin on)
If Everyone was listening / Supertramp (Crime of the Century)
Inside Love So personal / George Benson (In Your eyes)
Taxi / Harry Chapin (Greatest stories live)

George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice (Waiting On That Day)

Definitely agree with Stranger in Town, (#11) played and played and never tired of, though to be fair haven't listened to it in a while owing to it having been on a tape...would love to hear Still the Same again.


Ice Queen - The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture

Refugee - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes

Subbuteo - Admiral Fallow - Boots Met My Face

She's Gone - Robert Cray - False Accusations

Ghost Woman Blues - The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh

Tightrope - The Unwinding Hours - The Unwinding Hours

Cellar of Dreams - The Silencers - Seconds of Pleasure

Leave the Light On - Jeff Healey - Feel This

Revolver - can't fault it.

Never one for coming up with anything earth-shatteringly original myself, I'll venture a few I've no doubt others will also suggest.

Manic Street Preachers Everything Must Go Enola / Alone
just a lesser played song from this incredible album. If you like that kind of stuff, that is.
Pulp This Is Hardcore Seductive Barry
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Sweet Painted Lady
The Eagles Hotel California Wasted Time
Manfred Mann's Earth Band Angel Station Angels At My Gate

Not going to give a big reason for any of them - people are free to make up their own minds. I just think they're all right guid albums.

El Corazon - Steve Earle (please play Poison Lovers)
Wrecking ball - Emmylou Harris (please play All my tears)
Silk degrees - Boz Scaggs (please play Love me tomorrow)
Born to run - Springsteen (please play Jungleland)
Cado Belle - Cado Belle (please play That kind of fool)

Joe
Linlithgow

There is not a bad track on

Justin Currie - What Is Love For

Anything, title song or If I Ever Loved You

Aw man... Gaie comes in with Ice Queen.. what a girl!

I too will tend to continue to pish against the hurricane & suggest London Lady ~ T. Stranglers Rattus Norvegicus

I too have always found 'Rattus Norvegicus' to have been like the proverbial book that you just can't put down.
Seconds please for MM + 'London Lady' (in celebration of his recent WH Way sojourn!)

Howzyerknees old chap?

Just dandy Mr Gelly, thanks very much.

P. apologise to the crew, for the lack of postcards... ;-)

#17 hahahahaha, MM - you just made my day :0)

What a great theme, can't wait to check out the above recommendations from the blog. Finding an album without a duff track is a big ask, even my favourites like Dylan, Neil Young, Springsteen, have only got one each IMO. Not even sure Joni has one but i'll leave that to Willie B. Bowie has definitely got several which have all been nominated in the past on this page.

As mentioned earlier this week "The Deep Field" is what i'm listening to at the moment and after about half a dozen plays i'm hooked. The first half is rocky, edgy, even psychedelic and then it gets more soulful and easy listening on the second half.

Only trouble is picking one, many are longish and some a bit weird for radio, i'll go with....

Action Man - Joan as Police Woman

Paul from Ayr

Great photo again Gaie.

Gaie - Has your Frankie Miller compilation arrived yet? Mine has! 7 albums on 4 CDs. At £11.93 as cheap as chips.


My choice for tonight is so obvious I'm amazed nobody beat me to it.

The album is Bat Out Of Hell and the track I want is
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad though to be honest any track will do. They're all great!

:o)

every song a great song:
Alison Moyet 'Alf'
The Big Dish 'Satellites'
Simple Minds 'New Gold Dream'
Roxy Music 'Flesh And Blood'
Adele '21'

I rarely play an album unless I play it all right through. I don't play music in the car unless I am doing a journey of 45 minutes or more and I don't start the CD until I have fueled up and any other interruptions out of the way.

I detest I-tunes etc for creating a cherry-picking culture, where new music fans will only ever know hit singles and never get the chance to let album tracks grow on them because they are not 'immediate' enough.

I am not a fan of greatest hits albums or various artists albums, if I hear a song on the radio or TV that I like then I buy the album that the song was originally written, recorded and released on.

I think this comes from my classical music background where a symphony for example is seen as one piece that is applauded at the end and not as 4 different bits of music.

#24

Some albums yes are meant to be listened to all the way through, conceived as a thematic entity and tracks out of context are weaker for it.

But that's not universally true - bands' first albums are traditionally "all the tracks that worked best on our way up the system", and after that, when you're locked into a multi-album deal over 3 years, you put out whatever's ready. We've all listened to albums with clear 'filler' tracks.

It's not until you get to the level of being great, where you can
1) Spend lots of time writing/in the studio (the Beatles' approach)
and/or
2) Release what you want, when you want, when you're really, really happy with the result
without the outside pressure.

So it's interesting to hear a collection of songs all written around the same time, but it's not always essential to have that context. And a great song's a great song, regardless.

(By the way, you do know you can view/listen to iChoons/ayePods as albums, right?)

sgt pepper's....................everyone a belter..............'lovely rita'


white album?...........whats that No 9 all about then.......could be mince.

cheers frae the dale

Just magic albums all the way through:

* Roger Waters - Radio KAOS (Radio Waves)
* Pink Floyd - Meddle (San Tropez)
* Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (Breathe)
* Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Have a Cigar)
* Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and the Ravens (John The Gun)
* Genesis - A Trick of the Tail (A Trick of the Tail)
* The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free (Fit But You Know It)
* Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion (Big Girl (You Are Beautiful))
* Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters (Filthy/Gorgeous)
* They Might Be Giants - Flood (Particle Man)
* Madness - Dangermen Sessions (Shame & Scandal)
* Clannad - Macalla (In a Lifetime)
* The Fratellis - Costello Music (Chelsea Dagger)
* Peter Gabriel - So (We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37))
* This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow (My Father)
* The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash (A Pair of Brown Eyes)
* Capercaille - Delirium (Rann Na Mona)
* Runrig - The Cutter and the Clan (Rocket to the Moon)
* Christy Moore - Ride On (Sonny's Dream)
* U2 - Joshua Tree (Trip Through Your Wires)
* U2 - Rattle and Hum (God Part II)
* U2 - How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (All Because of You)
* Springsteen - We Shall Overcome (My Oklahoma ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ)
* Springsteen - Nebraska (Atlantic City)

I seem to be past my Desert Island Discs limit...

#26

Even Within You Without You?

#1 is a question and answer.

#28 @ ya glen miller re @ #26 re @ #1

even even within you without you............the inspiration in my opinion for jethro tull's.............don't wanna be a fat man.

cheers frae the dale

Rush - Moving Pictures (Tom Sawyer)

Lou Reed - Transformer (Vicious)

Television - Marquee Moon (Venus)

Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot (Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles)

Paul Simon - Graceland (The Boy in The Bubble)

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (Cloudbusting)

The Strokes - Is This It (Last Nite)

Showaddywaddy - Trocadero (Trocadero)

#32 great shout AFR.

#21,Paul,Re Joni,"Court and Spark" or "Hissing of Summer Lawns" hands down beginning to end winners all the way(imho,of course).Would have included "Blue"but think "Little Green"sounds like it was left over from earlier stuff.So title track from either albums would be cool,Bryan,if your reading.Other non stop greats would include Steely Dan's "Aja"(Deacon Blue),kd lang's "Drag"(The Air that I breathe),Donna Summer's great Quincy Jones dazzler"Donna Summer"which includes "State of Independance"and a blow your socks off cover of Bruce Springsteen's"Protection"with Bruce on blistering lead guitar.As far as the Beatles go "Revolver"is as good as it got.Cheers Willie Bartke

one of my favourite albums for playing through is
Van Morrison Moondance
difficult to single one track out but would suggest "Into the Mystic"

#21 re Bob Dylan , Paul - I think John Wesley Harding is one of the best to listen to all through - just a personal choice!

norma21

Here's my list of albums I dare not shuffle - all the tracks are great, but if you must pick one...

The Big Dish - Creeping Up On Jesus (Waiting For The Parade)
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe (City Of Angels)
The Pearlfishers - The Strange Underworld Of The Tall Poppies (Everyday Storms)
The River Detectives - Saturday Night Sunday Morning (A Deeper Love)
Trash Can Sinatras - Cake (Obscurity Knocks)
Fountains Of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers (Hung Up On You)
Suzanne Vega - Songs In Red and Gray (Last Years Troubles)
Win - Uh! Tears Baby (Hollywood Baby Too)
Love And Money - Strange Kind Of Love (Up Escalator)
King L - Great Day For Gravity (First Man On The Sun)

#34 Willie, agreed on the first two, i don't know "Blue" so it goes onto a (long) list.

#35 Norma, ashamed to say I don't know that album either, oh dear, thanks for the tip!

#21/35

Dylan! How did I forget Dylan!
Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (Buckets of Rain)

I also think his very first (eponymous) album's very fine indeed. There's not a track on it I wouldn't be very happy to listen to.

And speaking of Dylan
Traveling Wilburys - Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 (End of the Line)

Every single track on it is a stonker, and it's criminally underplayed on the radio (but not on my ayePod).

For me, the start - to - finish album of Dylan's is Desire, with tracks such as 'Joey', 'Hurricane' & 'Sara'


Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours is well well worn in each of the formats I own. Never going back again is rarely played on the radio and, at only 2 minutes 15 seconds, would fit in well before the news

DC

Japan - Tin Drum (Cantonese Boy)

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (Lady Grinning Soul)

Ach stranger things might happen ☺

#38 - #41 superb!

Siouxsie & THe Banshees - The Scream (Jigsaw Feeling)

The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (10:15 Saturday Night)

#22 norrie - thank you

#23 not yet, Senga, though it's 'been dispatched'. 7 albums - that's ridiculous value.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Disorder)

Talking Heads - Fear of Music (I Zimbra)

Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones - Live With Me
Excitable Boy - Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money
Revival - John Fogerty - Longshot
In The Land Of Salvation and Sin - Georgia Satellites - Bottle O' Tears
Forever Changes - Love - You Set The Scene

Glen - I always thought I should investigate that Love album, anyway I eventually gor it as a giveaway in the Times. It is outstanding. Bryan Maclean is Maria mcKee's haldf brother. Which is of no relevance whatsoever....

Teenage Fanclub -- Grand prix - Sparky's Dream

Steely Dan -- Can't Buy A Thrill - Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)

#38 Blood On The Tracks. Good shout Capt.Hows about Lily,Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts.8mins long so Bryan & co can nip out for some fresh air,go to the chippy run roon the buildin' and be back for the next request.

Crowded House-Together Alone.Superb album.I'd go for 'Private Universe if I had to choose.

Laura Nyro's "Eli and the 13th Confession"is my definitive stone cold classic favourite album,PERIOD.!I got it in 1968 and was blown away by the heady mixture of rock, blues,gospel and jazz influences all channeled through a voice that sounded like Dionne Warwick on steroids!Light years ahead of its time there is not one bummer amongst the 13 tracks.Woefully underrated.Would love to hear her paens to bevvying"Sweet Blindness"or "Stoned Soul Picnic"Cheers(hic)!Willie Bartke

#47

I was lucky enough to hear it live. Bryan (no relation I presume) wasn't considered good enough for the Monkees.

#47

Norrie,

That'll be the Glasgow edition of the Evening Times ?

>8-D

Give us the albums you can listen to from start to finish, the ones that are all killer and no filler and we will play the obvious single so you will have no idea what makes them so good.


A fine opporchancity missed methinks

Indistinguishable from a singles show

#52

You wouldn't get it in an Edinburgh paper - "You'll have had your Arthur Lee"

Right, I'm back! Which one of my requests was played?

#55

Hungry Like The Wolf from the Rio album.

#56

Izzat Soft Cell?